Zotefoams’ ReZorce sustainable mono-material barrier packaging range has been named winner in the Product Innovation category at the 2024 Reuters Sustainability Awards.
This year, 700 entries from 50 countries contested 17 categories judged by an international panel of business leaders, academics, designers and change makers in the field of sustainability. ReZorce won the Product Innovation category ahead of 13 other shortlisted entrants including other aseptic liquid packaging board (LPB) beverage cartons and packaging innovations. ReZorce answers the need for wholesale change rather than incremental improvement in pack formats such as aseptic beverage cartons.
Currently available aseptic beverage cartons – used for products such as fruit juices which are not refrigerated – are produced from composite layers of wood fibre, aluminium and polymer bonded together (LPB). Unlike ReZorce, these composite materials cannot be recycled through mainstream processes. ReZorce on the other hand has a mono-material design which leads to excellent performance in standard Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs). The resulting recyclate can be reused, including in the core of ReZorce cartons, bringing the prospect of circularity to the 250 billion unit-per-annum beverage carton market for the first time.
Zotefoams is currently in the latter stages of developing ReZorce for beverage carton applications and is preparing for trials with a north European supermarket chain.
The award follows the recent success of ReZorce in the Deutsche Verpackungsinstitut’s German Packaging Awards, serving as further confirmation that ReZorce is a much-needed product with a bright future, said Ronan Cox, Zotefoams Group CEO.
“We are 100% focussed on translating these award achievements into on-shelf success as ReZorce looks to finally bring a truly sustainable solution to the aseptic carton industry and beyond.”